Has the owner/GM changed his thinking?

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I've seen several comments about the owner not making coaching changes and using the 10 years with Garrett as the reasoning but is it just the opposite? He waited for it to come and it never did. His patience went unrewarded.

Has the fact that he's not getting any younger and a year closer to checking out every year affected his thinking about time and how much there is left to see another SB?

Some feel McC is safe but they pulled the trigger on Nolan after one year and now have two succession candidates on the staff and who thinks the owner won't pull a Garrett move with Kellen Moore?

I really do think we are seeing a new sense of urgency, an awareness of the clock that we've not seen before from him and I do not think that bodes well for McC. He needs a kickstart to this season or we could see the second HC replaced during the season.

The fans are impatient and last season was more embarrassing than a lot of losing seasons. So, the owner is impatient too.

And what do you think the players think? Who brought Nolan in last season and who allowed the defense to get turned inside out? Think there might also be some impatient players?

I think McC has a ticket on the 3:10 to Yuma that he is unaware of and if he starts off 1-3, that train pulls into the station and if he goes to 2-6, his ticket gets punched. I know, some feel not unless he's lost the team. At 2-5 or 6, he's lost the team and management. No GM pays a QB this much and assembles this O to go 2-5 or 6.

The other NFL owners have been getting more itchy trigger fingers with HC's every season and now I think this owner has joined their ranks.

McC better win or pack it in.
 

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I've seen several comments about the owner not making coaching changes and using the 10 years with Garrett as the reasoning but is it just the opposite? He waited for it to come and it never did. His patience went unrewarded.

Has the fact that he's not getting any younger and a year closer to checking out every year affected his thinking about time and how much there is left to see another SB?

Some feel McC is safe but they pulled the trigger on Nolan after one year and now have two succession candidates on the staff and who thinks the owner won't pull a Garrett move with Kellen Moore?

I really do think we are seeing a new sense of urgency, an awareness of the clock that we've not seen before from him and I do not think that bodes well for McC. He needs a kickstart to this season or we could see the second HC replaced during the season.

The fans are impatient and last season was more embarrassing than a lot of losing seasons. So, the owner is impatient too.

And what do you think the players think? Who brought Nolan in last season and who allowed the defense to get turned inside out? Think there might also be some impatient players?

I think McC has a ticket on the 3:10 to Yuma that he is unaware of and if he starts off 1-3, that train pulls into the station and if he goes to 2-6, his ticket gets punched. I know, some feel not unless he's lost the team. At 2-5 or 6, he's lost the team and management. No GM pays a QB this much and assembles this O to go 2-5 or 6.

The other NFL owners have been getting more itchy trigger fingers with HC's every season and now I think this owner has joined their ranks.

McC better win or pack it in.
Last year is a wash because of all the injuries. McCarthy is not on the hot seat at least not yet. He’ll get his 3 year chance at least.
 

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I've seen several comments about the owner not making coaching changes and using the 10 years with Garrett as the reasoning but is it just the opposite? He waited for it to come and it never did. His patience went unrewarded.

Has the fact that he's not getting any younger and a year closer to checking out every year affected his thinking about time and how much there is left to see another SB?

Some feel McC is safe but they pulled the trigger on Nolan after one year and now have two succession candidates on the staff and who thinks the owner won't pull a Garrett move with Kellen Moore?

I really do think we are seeing a new sense of urgency, an awareness of the clock that we've not seen before from him and I do not think that bodes well for McC. He needs a kickstart to this season or we could see the second HC replaced during the season.

The fans are impatient and last season was more embarrassing than a lot of losing seasons. So, the owner is impatient too.

And what do you think the players think? Who brought Nolan in last season and who allowed the defense to get turned inside out? Think there might also be some impatient players?

I think McC has a ticket on the 3:10 to Yuma that he is unaware of and if he starts off 1-3, that train pulls into the station and if he goes to 2-6, his ticket gets punched. I know, some feel not unless he's lost the team. At 2-5 or 6, he's lost the team and management. No GM pays a QB this much and assembles this O to go 2-5 or 6.

The other NFL owners have been getting more itchy trigger fingers with HC's every season and now I think this owner has joined their ranks.

McC better win or pack it in.
The defensive coaches and scheme were changed many times under Garrett.

Play calling was taken away from him on offense.

Jerry did everything in a semi timely manner except acknowledge that Garrett wasn't who he wanted him to be.

Jerry thinks he "has his man" in MM because he has taken a team to a Super Bowl, and figures he has all those magical things to say to the team during that run (or Aaron Rodgers, whichever).

The very thing that was missing from a franchise that managed to get to, but fully blow, two one seeds during its title drought.
 

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I’m not too sure... a lot of these other teams are getting aggressive with hiring college HCs, or other teams lesser known coordinators, which are complete gambles. I think we can all agree that if McCarthy was fired, Jerry would just make Moore the guy. Maybe even Quinn.

If McCarthy was fired and Jerry went out and got Matt Campbell or something, then I would agree.
 
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Jerry is loathe to pay coaches who are not coaching. He likes to wait until the contract is up and let them walk.

Will Jerry's advanced age change that? Doubtful. The other thing he doesn't like is coaching searches.

A new coach means starting all over again. He will give MM every opportunity to succeed. I'm sure Jerry thinks he's going to live to 100
 

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I've seen several comments about the owner not making coaching changes and using the 10 years with Garrett as the reasoning but is it just the opposite? He waited for it to come and it never did. His patience went unrewarded.

Has the fact that he's not getting any younger and a year closer to checking out every year affected his thinking about time and how much there is left to see another SB?
You won't know the answer for a couple of years when he fires Big Mac and hires his next boy wonder Moore.
 

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Jerry's time is running short. He wants to win now. So I suppose that could influence his thinking to change.
 

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I've seen several comments about the owner not making coaching changes and using the 10 years with Garrett as the reasoning but is it just the opposite? He waited for it to come and it never did. His patience went unrewarded.

Has the fact that he's not getting any younger and a year closer to checking out every year affected his thinking about time and how much there is left to see another SB?

Some feel McC is safe but they pulled the trigger on Nolan after one year and now have two succession candidates on the staff and who thinks the owner won't pull a Garrett move with Kellen Moore?

I really do think we are seeing a new sense of urgency, an awareness of the clock that we've not seen before from him and I do not think that bodes well for McC. He needs a kickstart to this season or we could see the second HC replaced during the season.

The fans are impatient and last season was more embarrassing than a lot of losing seasons. So, the owner is impatient too.

And what do you think the players think? Who brought Nolan in last season and who allowed the defense to get turned inside out? Think there might also be some impatient players?

I think McC has a ticket on the 3:10 to Yuma that he is unaware of and if he starts off 1-3, that train pulls into the station and if he goes to 2-6, his ticket gets punched. I know, some feel not unless he's lost the team. At 2-5 or 6, he's lost the team and management. No GM pays a QB this much and assembles this O to go 2-5 or 6.

The other NFL owners have been getting more itchy trigger fingers with HC's every season and now I think this owner has joined their ranks.

McC better win or pack it in.
I do not see any changes at HC and it would not happen during the season unless there was a complete meltdown on the field. Jerrah knows that firing a coach during the season is not what the next coach will want to see.
 

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Some feel McC is safe but they pulled the trigger on Nolan after one year
Some questioned Nolan's ability to lead the defense at the time of the hire. Turned out Nolan was the DC of the worst defense in the league. Historically horrible defense. You preferred they give him another shot at it this year?
 

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I haven't seen anything that would suggest that Jerry has changed.

The media is playing puppet master with Cowboys fans as usual to get click and views to profit off of Cowboys fans team loyalty and fan hate. However, any die hard Cowboys fan that follows every move the team makes is not fooled by such trickery.
 

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I've seen several comments about the owner not making coaching changes and using the 10 years with Garrett as the reasoning but is it just the opposite? He waited for it to come and it never did. His patience went unrewarded.

Has the fact that he's not getting any younger and a year closer to checking out every year affected his thinking about time and how much there is left to see another SB?

Some feel McC is safe but they pulled the trigger on Nolan after one year and now have two succession candidates on the staff and who thinks the owner won't pull a Garrett move with Kellen Moore?

I really do think we are seeing a new sense of urgency, an awareness of the clock that we've not seen before from him and I do not think that bodes well for McC. He needs a kickstart to this season or we could see the second HC replaced during the season.

The fans are impatient and last season was more embarrassing than a lot of losing seasons. So, the owner is impatient too.

And what do you think the players think? Who brought Nolan in last season and who allowed the defense to get turned inside out? Think there might also be some impatient players?

I think McC has a ticket on the 3:10 to Yuma that he is unaware of and if he starts off 1-3, that train pulls into the station and if he goes to 2-6, his ticket gets punched. I know, some feel not unless he's lost the team. At 2-5 or 6, he's lost the team and management. No GM pays a QB this much and assembles this O to go 2-5 or 6.

The other NFL owners have been getting more itchy trigger fingers with HC's every season and now I think this owner has joined their ranks.

McC better win or pack it in.
It's not in those details. In general, Jerry makes poor football decisions. Because he doesn't get it. He thought it was about picking a HC and staying w/ it. That may be part of it, but that is not an objective statement, it's mostly grey. And can't be understood by a non-NFL football mind. Ask Jerry why Garrett didn't work out, he wouldn't have the foggiest.
 

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Some questioned Nolan's ability to lead the defense at the time of the hire. Turned out Nolan was the DC of the worst defense in the league. Historically horrible defense. You preferred they give him another shot at it this year?
And it wasn't just how bad the D was, it was more about how it was a complete clusterfudge and no one seemed to even understand what their assignments were.
 

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Some questioned Nolan's ability to lead the defense at the time of the hire. Turned out Nolan was the DC of the worst defense in the league. Historically horrible defense. You preferred they give him another shot at it this year?
No, I would have preferred they not hire him, I was one of the first to post his unimpressive resume after his hiring.
 

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I think it was a combination of factors...

1)New scheme, new DC, new HC—first year is usually the roughest.
2)Less prep time, no TC, Covid—intensifying #1.
3)An offense decimated by injury, putting the weak D on the field even longer.
4)Lack of talent on D.
5)The wrong DC.
 

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No, I would have preferred they not hire him, I was one of the first to post his unimpressive resume after his hiring.
I remember thinking “Nolan’s resume doesn’t fill me with confidence, but McCarthy knows more than me, so...”

After all, Big Mac had been studying in a barn full of coaches for a year....
 

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I see a big difference in the draft. Seems like they had a plan or a blueprint and got players that fit the system. I haven’t seen a blueprint since Parcells.
 

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I can never get past the basics of hiring an offensive minded, 2 decades plus SB winning coach whose history is as the playcaller and then neutering him over Jerry's Garrett Part II project.

And then to confirm this, McC publicly states last year that he has to be careful not to step on Moore's toes cuz it's Moore's offense additionally left me scratching my head.

If it's solely Moore's offense, Quinn's defense and Fassel's Spec Teams then...

Oh, he's Jerry's "walk around coach".

I think CouchCoach previously referred to this as Jerry having a comfort level with coaches. Meaning he could boss them around, lol.

But like this OP implies and which I agree with, I think Jerry's comfort level ties more into winning now this time around.

jmo
 
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